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Blm Plans Better Communication

From Staff And Wire Reports

The Bureau of Land Management plans a greater effort to make sure scientific and technical information on natural resource issues gets from universities and agencies to the people who manage the resources.

The BLM said Monday it will locate a new high-level scientific team and natural resource “technical assistance network” in Boise to tie the latest scientific research with on-the-ground management in the Columbia River Basin.

Mike Dombeck, acting BLM director, said the new Columbia Northwest Technical Assistance Network will get information from researchers to managers.

“We’re in the midst of an information explosion,” he said in a prepared statement. “Yet, for a variety of reasons, it hasn’t always been easy to get critically needed information and research data to our field offices to use in our onthe-ground management.”

Dombeck said the new network will be a “virtual organization” linking scientists who will be associated with the team but who will remain at their normal duty stations.